Terms and phrases you loath

[Honorable Mention]

"Shorty", "baby boo" and any other slang often heard in rap/r&b music to refer to a girlfriend. Or at least to an individual I assume is girlfriend. It might just be the nice way to refer to bitches and hos for all I know.

[Twoyboy]

I cannot stand it when people use "Thanks" instead of "Please". For example: I'll have a cup of coffee, thanks.

I don't know why you're thanking me, you're getting your own fucking coffee now.

[speaker-to-trolls]

"Shorty", "baby boo" and any other slang often heard in rap/r&b music to refer to a girlfriend. Or at least to an individual I assume is girlfriend. It might just be the nice way to refer to bitches and hos for all I know.

What I find more aggravating, and disturbing, is when male rappers refer to the object of their affections as 'momma' or 'mommy'. Euurgghhhh.

I can't stand phrases like "you only live once", "live in the moment" and so on, because at my old school this was used constantly by dribbling chavs to justify their self destructive habits (like going out with and possibly sleeping with men 10-20 years older than them, if what I overheard sometimes was the truth).

I also get very annoyed when people use quotation marks around words when not quoting from something, particularly if the quotation marks are used around the words "good", "evil", "civilised" and "primitive". I understand the reason for those last two, as if you use them too much when talking about societies you can start to sound a bit racist, but I think it's preferable to try and find some words with less baggage than use quote marks all the time and come off as insufferably ironic.

[Damaramu]

I'd like to add my intense dislike for:

"Jump the shark"

"RAR!"

"Hunker down" (heard this too many times when Rita/Katrina hit the area)

"Somebody call the waaahmbulance"

and finally

"(place action here) much?"

[Schuyler Colfax]

"Are you dialing whine one one?", at first it was funny but, listening to a guy that compalins to no end say this to me over and over again ruined it.

[Gullible Jones]

"Word, dawg."

Just don't say it. It makes you sound like a halfwit.

[Rye]

"Word, dawg."

Just don't say it. It makes you sound like a halfwit.

I say "word, suckah/s" all the time as a greeting. Of course, it should be obvious that I'm using it with irony at the same time.

[Tsyroc]

Baby bump.

WTF?

1. When did celebrity gossip start focusing so much on whether celebs were pregnant or not?

2. Why not just say they are pregnant or look pregant. It they are pregant they won't care. If they aren't pregnant but look it then they'll just be embarassed/pissed.

3. There's something about "baby bump" that makes me think of someone creepy going, "heh, heh, heh, yeeaaaahhh she fucked somebody. Or "Yeaaaaahhh, someone fucked her". Like it's some big new surprise that people, which includes celebrities, have sex, get pregnant, and have children. It's not something new and it does not mean that you are one step closer at having a shot at that celeb.

It just seems like that whole baby bump bullshit came out around the same time that some pop culture jackass decied every star had to have some sort of mash-up nick name, and celebrity couples really had to have them.

[Darth Wong]

What I hate about "baby bump" gossip is that it sounds vaguely like some sort of fashion accessory. Which, unfortunately, seems to be how Hollywood people raise their children anyway, so I suppose it's appropriate.

[Frank Hipper]

Godammit, Tsyroc!

I just now was going to list the horrific "Baby Bump"!

"Gal Pal", while dated, shall have to suffice.

These terms reflect the mentality of the grocery store tabloid consumer, I suppose.

[Manus Celer Dei]

"High on life."

It's a much better phrase when the qualifier "...and also cocaine!" is added.

[The Spartan]

I can't stand phrases like "you only live once", "live in the moment" and so on,

I don't mind those so much, but along those lines, "You'll sleep enough when you're dead."

While I don't particularly enjoy spending around a third of my life unconscious, having suffered from occasional bouts of insomnia, I will tell you that no, I will not, when I can get a restful nights sleep, it's one of life's little pleasures.

[FSTargetDrone]

Not so much a phrase, but the media's endless practice of adding -gate to the end of the scandal du jour, as a play off of "Watergate." I despise that.

[SAMAS]

"Vote with your dollars," meaning that the people with all the dollars get all the votes. It's just a rebranding of the Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules, except that for some reason people think it's a good thing.

No, I think it means boycotting. At least, that's the way I heard of it.

IOW, if you don't like the practices of a company, you vote with your dollars by not giving them your business.

[andrewgpaul]

Baby bump.

Thankfully, I've never come across this particular turd in the linguistic swimming pool. Probably because I don't read Heat.

[SAMAS]

"Cussing"

It's bad enough when you're some civility whore who gets upset over a mere choice of words (is there any REAL difference between "screw" or "fuck?"). But what I can't stand are the idiots who think that cursing is so beyond the pale that they can't even bring themselves to say the word cursing. Whenever I hear "cussing," it's INVARIABLY from some backward fundie moron big on supposed manners or "values."

Lemme guess, from the South?

[Schuyler Colfax]

"Cussing"

It's bad enough when you're some civility whore who gets upset over a mere choice of words (is there any REAL difference between "screw" or "fuck?"). But what I can't stand are the idiots who think that cursing is so beyond the pale that they can't even bring themselves to say the word cursing. Whenever I hear "cussing," it's INVARIABLY from some backward fundie moron big on supposed manners or "values."

Lemme guess, from the South?

You have no idea how right you are.

[Elmca]

Going along with the Ebonics line, I despise the mispronunciation of the word "ask" as "aks" as in "Mr. Elmca, let me aks you a question."

How the fuck hard is it to say "ask"? People with absolutely no other speech impediment or other mispronunciations can't figure out the "k" comes after the "s"?

I also don't like the way "gay" is used to describe things that aren't cool, although I know plenty of gay people who use it, too. Of course, I used to use the word "lame" in the same context without once thinking about how crippled people might feel about it.

[Phantasee]

I can't stand phrases like "you only live once", "live in the moment" and so on,

I don't mind those so much, but along those lines, "You'll sleep enough when you're dead."

While I don't particularly enjoy spending around a third of my life unconscious, having suffered from occasional bouts of insomnia, I will tell you that no, I will not, when I can get a restful nights sleep, it's one of life's little pleasures.

I love saying that though. I use it to persuade people to stay up later than they want so we can do something more fun than sleeping. Of course, most of those people aren't insomniacs, and I am, I think, so it's really a selfish thing so they can provide me company while I can't sleep.

[JointStrikeFighter]

Going along with the Ebonics line, I despise the mispronunciation of the word "ask" as "aks" as in "Mr. Elmca, let me aks you a question."

How the fuck hard is it to say "ask"? People with absolutely no other speech impediment or other mispronunciations can't figure out the "k" comes after the "s"?

PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAY THAT? I thought it was a Futurama joke?

[The Spartan]

I love saying that though. I use it to persuade people to stay up later than they want so we can do something more fun than sleeping. Of course, most of those people aren't insomniacs, and I am, I think, so it's really a selfish thing so they can provide me company while I can't sleep.

Yeah, well, I only ever seem to suffer from insomnia when I'm alone. So I don't get that benefit. Though generally when I'm with people it's a struggle for me to stay awake as long as they do since most of my friends have a schedule that allows them to sleep until 7 or 8 in the morning where as I wake up at 5. The result is that they can stay up later than me when the weekend rolls around.

[Elfdart]

In addition...

Use of the word "Gay" in generic negative context (and by extention "Queer", Eff-Eh-Gee and such). If it is the context of "300 was a good movie, but with all those men in speedos going about, it was kind of Gay", i am fine with it, but if it is something like "this thread is gay", i just can't stand it. I don't care if homosexuals use it sometimes, it is still Homophobic bullshit.

Zpr

I remember a Psych clas when the professor was explaining what homophobia was: fear and discrimination against homosexuals. At which point one of the girls in the class said "That's soooooooo gay!"

Yes, she was a blonde.

"Whatever, I was just saying", and variations of that phrase. I have often been given this reply whenever I pointed out a misconception someone had or false claim that someone made. Instead of conceding or just shutting up, the person will then claim that he was "just saying", whatever the hell that means in that context.

That one pisses me off, too. I respond:

Well if we can "just say" anything, I'll "just say" you're full of shit.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Going along with the Ebonics line, I despise the mispronunciation of the word "ask" as "aks" as in "Mr. Elmca, let me aks you a question."

How the fuck hard is it to say "ask"? People with absolutely no other speech impediment or other mispronunciations can't figure out the "k" comes after the "s"?

PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAY THAT? I thought it was a Futurama joke?

The joke was making fun of the mispronunciation.

In a similar vein, I despise it when people say "hisself" instead of "himself".

[Darth Yoshi]

In a similar vein, I despise it when people say "hisself" instead of "himself".

I've...only seen that in fiction, as part of the "typical" uneducated-black-slave-speak. People really say it like that?

I have to go with "nukular" here. Ugh.